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Sumit Dhawan,
Senior VP and General Manager, VMware

Will VMware’s Workspace ONE spark mobile innovation’s Act II?
The consensus is that cloud still loses to on-prem as far as maximum security goes; as important as security is to an organization, no one is citing this as a reason to halt migration to cloud. Now that the world has reached the point of no return with cloud or hybrid IT, the market for improved cloud security is opening up. This is particularly true in the sphere of mobile apps where security can get even chancier, according to Sumit Dhawan, senior VP and GM at VMware Inc. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Robin Matlock,
Chief Marketing Officer, VMware

Amazon deal is not the be-all, end-all in VMware’s cloud strategy, says CMO
When Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. announced their landmark partnership recently, it was deemed by many to be the launch of an unstoppable dual force in cloud. What combination of VMware and cloud could compete with a VMware-Amazon double-threat? Read the full blog post with highlights from her interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Dirk Hohndel,
VP and Chief Open Source Officer, VMware

Open source needs social freedoms for business to thrive
When open source was first introduced in 1991 with Linux, it was considered a novelty in the industry, a new toy for developers to play with. Today, it’s a fundamental driver of technology innovation across all software companies, according to Dirk Hohndel, VP and chief open source officer at VMware Inc. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

VMware aims to simplify cross-cloud challenges
Clients have a huge set of challenges when they move to the cloud; the average company, today, has its data sitting in 4.5 clouds, according to Guido Appenzeller, chief technology strategy officer, network/security business unit, at VMware Inc. A client may well have data in the AWS, Azure, Google and IBM public clouds, as well as in an on-prem data center. The question becomes, how do you connect them all together? Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Mark Lohmeyer,
VP, Server Virtualization Products, VMware

Uncovering the ‘real hybrid architecture’ with AWS-VMware mashup
To bring clients the hybrid solution they’ve been asking for, VMware Inc. and Amazon recently announced a strategic partnership, bringing VMware’s enterprise-class data center software to the Amazon Web Services cloud. This will enable customers to run any application across vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments. This jointly architected service represents a significant investment on the part of both companies in engineering, operations, support and sales resources. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Betsy Sutter,
Corporate SVP and Chief People Officer, VMware

The numbers behind virtualization’s real impact on the environment
Virtualization is good for more than business; turns out it’s good for the planet, too. Read the full blog post with highlights from her interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

VMware: Networking must align to new microservices-based applications
The digital transformation sweeping across many companies has relied on new applications based on microservices distributed across on-premises data centers and public clouds. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.